Word: twickenham
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...feels much the same," Smith said. "I had a very pleasant entry into Britain. I looked down and saw and green patch and realized it was Twickenham rugby ground. It brought back some pleasant memories...
Lewis calls his 18th century colonial home Strawberry Hill after the gothic castle that Walpole designed for himself in Twickenham. He shares other Walpolian intersts: he is fond of art and antiques, carries on a voluminous correspondence of his own, and spends his spare time writing essays. Besides continuing the Yale volumes, Lewis is currently working on a book of essays about literature he has particularly enjoyed. In a chapter on Cicero's De Senectute, Lewis has written: "Ardent collectors are among the happiest of men because age does not weaken their rapacity." Clearly, Wilmarth Lewis is among...
Kenneth Piper last April became the first man to fly from Twickenham Bridge into the Thames. It was not much of a flight, actually-about 40 feet, straight down-but the fact that Piper was borne by homemade wings gave it an added dimension of pathos. Walter Cornelius (the "Birdman of Peterborough") can identify only too well with Piper's plunge; in December he zoomed from a supermarket roof straight into the River Nene, because, as he later complained, "the elastic broke on my wings...